Been trying it that way for 6 months or so and it's been frustrating to think a place looks great and then scour the internet to find guidelines only to discover it's not going to work for us because of fencing requirements. I was hoping for a way to narrow down where to look in the first place.

This is very helpful thank you! That's so frustrating I'm sorry you went through such a hassle

Thank you! That's both very helpful and very disappointing. We may be looking for a "unicorn" that doesn't exist then, and that's very good to know. We love Columbia and all the trails, lakes, and restaurants but I'm not sure what we are looking for in a home exists there :(. Is there not a lot of pushback from homeowners about this? I can't imagine in a huge town that there aren't other homeowners with dogs that hope for fences higher than 48". I know if my dogs saw a deer they could clear one of those split rail 48" fences without missing a beat!

Interesting, thanks, didn't know about that!

A lot of the ones we have looked at don't have them at all or they aren't sufficient for our needs. It's harder than it sounds to find one with a fence already built, we've only seen maybe 3 out of the 40-50 houses we've toured!

Thank you! I've seen that website but I haven't been able to find all the details about fencing for each individual HOA. Some don't seem to be online anywhere

Whoaaaa.....

I know they would send the guidelines after we buy a house, but that would be too late. I would prefer not to bother touring homes if I know in advance that secure fencing is off the table

What HOA are you in? Is the fence 6ft?

This is incredibly helpful, thank you! Do you know offhand of any of the villages that allow 6ft fences? I would not want to chance buying a home and not being able to build a secure fence. I don't want to bother touring homes in communities where we wouldn't be likely to get approval.

I've been having such a hard time finding all of them. Some I can with a Google search, some I can't. Even the ones I can find though it's so hard to be able to tell what actually would be approved

There's no way those split rail fences would do it for our dogs, with or without chicken wire. I know a lot of Columbia HOAs seem to only want those. My dogs could jump over those EASILY.